Storage crib



June 19, 1951 E. E. LANKENAU 2,557,878

STORAGE CRIB Filed April 10, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 fig .6? I Q9 K qINVENTOR.

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Application April 10, 1947, Serial No. 740,605

1 Claim.

My present invention relates to an improved storage crib of the typedesigned for use in storing feed such as corn by utilizing a wallstructure which may be of the snow fence type including spaced staves orpalings secured by interwoven wires.

The invention also includes securing rings for the upper and lower edgesof the wall structure and braces, together with a roof device.

A door and frame are fixed within the lower portion of the cribproviding access thereto and the crib may be .built by unskilled laborin a minimum of time.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example ofthe physical embodiment of my invention according to the best mode Ihave thus far devised, but it will be understood that various changesand alterations may be made in the exemplified structure within thescope of the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevatio-nal view of the crib.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view at 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the wall structure.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view thereof.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view at line 55 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view at line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view at line 1'| of Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a sectional view through the frame rings showing the securingmeans therefor.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a portion of the door frame.

Referring now to the drawings I have illustrated the present embodimentof my invention as comprising a base 2 upon supports 4 of suitable typeand material.

The crib includes cylindrical wall elements consisting in spaced slatsor palings 6 secured by twisted wires 8 and I0 and the ends of thecylindrical wall are located in the rings l2 having a circular recess M.The upper ring of the lower section and the lower ring of the uppersection are secured together as by bolts or rivets I6 and diagonalbraces l8 secured at 20 intermediate thereof are provided to insurestability.

A conical roof 22 is supported upon rafters 24.

A door 26 having a handle 28 is vertically slidable in the flanges 30 ofthe frame 32 and the crib is ready for use to discharge feed throughchute 34.

In the wall structure there may be used a snow fence, or a structuresimilar thereto, and in either use the spaced slats permit circulationof air while confining the stored feed, and the structure will be easyto assemble and inexpensive to maintain.

The frame rings may be of suitable material as metal as are the bracesand the slats are normally of low cost wood in thin strips.

Having thus fully described my inventionv what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

A corn crib comprising upper and lower cylindrical wall elementscomprising relatively spaced slats secured in spaced relation to eachother by means of twisted wires, which are secured to the slats inspaced horizontal relation to each other, U-shaped retaining ringsadapted to receive the upper periphery of the upper wall elements andthe lower periphery of the lower wall elements, a pair of U-shapedretaining rings having their bights secured together to form an H-shapedretaining ring so that the lower periphery of the upper wall elementsare received in the upper U- shaped retaining ring and the upperperiphery of the lower wall elements are received in the lower U-shapedretaining ring, a conical roof mounted on the upper U-shaped retainingring and a base engaging the lower U-shaped retaining ring and diagonalbraces secured together at their central portions in criss-crossrelation to each other with the upper ends of the brace members engagingthe roof and the lower ends of the brace members engaging the base forstabilizing the wall elements and an access door in the lower wallelements.

ELMER E. LANKENAU.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

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